U.S. report suggests China aims to stabilize ties with India amid LAC tensions, but India remains skeptical of China's motives.

The agreement was to disengage from remaining standoff sites along the Line of Actual Control (LAC), two days before a meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the sidelines of the BRICS Summit

A US Defense Department report claims that China is trying to use easing tensions along the LAC to stabilise ties with India, while also seeking to slow the growing partnership between New Delhi and Washington.